1098 Perplexed and Smitten 158 (2/2)
”Of course I want you to say whether it's true or not!”
”It's true.”
”What?!”
”Why would I lie to you? If not, do you think that that time when I brought you to Mount Wanyan was also fake and just a dream you had?”
”Oh god…” Fang Erlan's heart started to beat rapidly. ”How could this happen in this world… how could there be someone who has lived for so many years…?”
”Just because you don't know or have never heard of something doesn't mean that they don't exist,” he replied in a rather gentle voice.
”Then, tell me, why do you want to be with me since you already have someone else that you love, although she's dead? I know that I look nothing like her, so why?”
”I'll answer this question of yours when the time comes.”
”Can't you tell me now?”
”There's no hurry.”
”But I'm desperate to know now!”
He kept a calm demeanor. ”Then stay that way.”
”You jerk!” He was triggering her curiosity but refused to answer her doubts.
With his gaze fixed ahead and the steering wheel in hand, he did not speak another word for the rest of the ride to the crematorium.
It seemed that he had also given the people at the crematorium a heads-up earlier.
When they got off the car, she probed, ”Then, can you tell me, why did the people at the museum allow you to collect the corpse?”
”Because I told Hua… An Xiaoning to send it to the museum. Then, An Xiaoning told them to allow me to collect it. Could they possibly go against her?”
”Sis Xiaoning…”
Fang Erlan recalled the time she had told Sis Xiaoning about her recurrent dreams and the corpse she had seen. But at that time, An Xiaoning had not told her that she was the one who had sent the corpse to the museum…
Could she have already known back then that the woman was the one Xiao Chenyang loved most?
Was it because it was inconvenient to tell her or did Xiao Chenyang not allow her to reveal it?
Between these two alternatives, she felt that the latter was more possible.
Given Xiao Chenyang's temper, that was probably the case.
Of course, it could have been that Sis Xiaoning did not want to be nosy…
He carefully took the corpse from the front passenger seat and carried it down the car before entering the crematorium.
Fang Erlan followed behind him.
His pace was rather fast, so by the time he carried the corpse and placed it on the bed in the funeral parlor, she had only just entered the main entrance.
The professional makeup artist was putting makeup on the corpse.
Looking at the face of the corpse lying on that bed, Fang Erlan noticed that she looked ravishing. She had to admit that this woman with a height of about 1.5 meters had stunning looks.
She glanced at the corpse, then turned to look at Xiao Chenyang, who had a grave expression on his face.
She held her breath and kept silent, still trying to digest what he had said on the car earlier.
Because it was simply a piece of unbelievable news.
Having seen the corpse in the museum and then spending a brief moment with it in the same car, Fang Erlan was emotional not just about the corpse, which had been perfectly preserved, but also about this woman, who was not quite tall yet looked stunning. Not to mention, there was that piece of shocking news she had received. Other than that, she felt nothing toward this corpse.
But when the corpse entered the incinerator, for some reason, tears started to flow down Fang Erlan's cheeks continuously. She reached out to wipe them away and lowered her head to look at these crystal droplets on her fingers.
Before Xiao Chenyang could see them, she swiftly wiped her tears away.
When the staff at the funeral parlor placed the urn in Xiao Chenyang's hands, he took them and left this place without uttering a single word.
After placing the urn at the back row of the car, he removed the red ribbons from the vehicle. Fang Erlan then had no choice but to sit in the front passenger seat, although the thought of a corpse being seated there just a while ago bothered her slightly.
”Are we going to the cemetery now?”
”Yes.”
”Since she's the woman you loved most, why did you cremate her? She's been preserved so well, you could have looked at her like that every day. Isn't that right?”